Simon Pulleyn, a longstanding Friend of the Trust, recently drew our attention to a 1985 documentary, Queens’: A Cambridge College, in which the Trust and its first Chair, Sir Harold Bailey, appear in Episode 7, ‘Fellowship’. Two research students visit Sir Harold at the Trust. They are shown around his library in the Iran Room and given a taste of the Pahlavi Zoroastrian scripture, the Bundahišn. As he tells the students, he began work on that edition of the Bundahišn in 1933 but stopped and only resumed his work on …
Recent Publications from our Trustees – 2019/2020
As any recent publications acquired by the Trust are not currently accessible to readers, we thought we would share with you an update of recent publications from some of our Trustees, many of which are Open Access papers and therefore available to download online. Joe Cribb : Cribb, J., ‘Fifth Century Sasanian Coins Found in Guangdong Province, Southern China‘ in Singh, Karan (ed.) Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society ; No. 236, Summer 2019. Cribb, J., ‘The Bimaran Casket: The Problem of Its Date and Significance (abstract)’ in Stargardt, J. …